Activity Stream

Electrolysis (e10s)

Just started week 4 of the Flash Shield Study. Nightly 55 has click-to-activate (CTA) as the default setting. Beta 55 will see a gradual rollout of CTA, though domain blocking will be active for everyone.

Crash:

Startup crashes from BaseThreadInitThunk has been fixed in 55. This prevents early DLL injection by third parties in some cases (which is against policy anyway), so check that bug if you’re dealing with an injection-related crash. [This unfortunately does not account for the spike from January to April, so that’s still under investigation.]

Reminder: if you have WIP patches for front-endy things, it’s a good idea to push those to Talos to detect potential regressions early. Feel free to ping mconley if you need help analyzing and dealing with Talos regressions, since he’s currently down there anyways.

Structure

Hamburger panel is now feature-complete! (minor caveat: the library subview is shared with the library button, which is not feature-complete yet)

Meat ball … I mean, page action menu now has a bookmark item (as well as the synced tabs subview)

Still to come: Pocket & Screenshots

There’s a veeeeery-initial library button + panel available now. Probably not worth testing yet, but available in the palette.

Sidebar work is still progressing. You can now swap the sidebar to the opposite side of the window, and we’ve done some work on the styling of the sidebar header.

Greening up tests so we can flip the photon structure pref by default on nightly builds.

Animation

Jared landed bug 1364221 we now will run more animations on the compositor

Jared is getting close in bug 1355924 to add an animation for refresh/stop

Sam is working in bug 1352065 to implement a new download animation. Some back and forth with UX still to figure out the UX design here.

Visuals

Johann added new compact and touch modes (that are independent of themes). They can be triggered through setting browser.uidensity to 1 or 2. Setting these will be exposed in the customize mode eventually.